Interannual Variability of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Tropical North Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Fu, Yao, Wang, Chunzai, Brandt, Peter, Greatbatch, Richard J.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2019
• Subjects: Oceanography; interannual variability of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the tropical North Atlantic; meridional propagating AAIW salinity anomalies associated with the western boundary transport; zonal propagating AAIW anomalies related to baroclinic Rossby wave propagation; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PLANETARY WAVE-PROPAGATION; OXYGEN-MINIMUM ZONES; VARYING MEAN FLOW; BRAZIL CURRENT; AGULHAS LEAKAGE; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DECADAL CHANGES; TRANSPORT; OCEAN; Antarctic; Curl; Antarc*; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://ir.gig.ac.cn/handle/344008/41482; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014878

Interannual variability of Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) in the tropical North Atlantic is investigated using the GECCO2 ocean state estimate and Argo data. AAIW salinity variability near the western boundary is highly correlated with the transport along the western boundary on interannual tim...